California Bill Requiring Kindergarten Exempts Early English Testing
Parallel California Assembly (2226) and Senate (1056) Bills have been introduced that would require children to attend one year of kindergarten before enrolling in...
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Preschool Reading Boosts Language Skills by Eight Months
A new review of existing research finds that receptive language skills—the ability to understand information – are improved by the equivalent of eight...
First Ever World Braille Day
Today (January 4) was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly last November as World Braille Day to raise awareness of the importance of...
Alberta invests $6M in Indigenous language education
Alberta’s government plans to spend $6 million dollars over the next two years to help establish a new program that will bring Indigenous language...
Electing Education
During last month’s midterm elections, education reform was a big issue in many races across the nation. The creation of more charter schools is...
Ed. Dept. under Scrutiny for Civil Rights
According to the agenda for 2019 posted on its website, the U.S. Department of Education’s internal watchdog, the Office of the Inspector General, will...
Sign Language Reveals Secrets of Spoken Language
According to a new study, sign languages can help reveal hidden aspects of the logical structure of spoken language, but they also highlight its...
Telemundo to Launch English Youtube Content
Telemundo plans to debut an English-language newscast on YouTube in third-quarter 2019.
The objective is to reach young, millennial Hispanics with news relevant to the...
Ed. Dept. Emphasizes Value of World Languages
During November’s International Education Week, the U.S. Department of Education released its revised international education strategy, “Succeeding Globally through International Education and Engagement,” which...
Europe to the Max
Planning to study in Europe? Be sure to check out our collection of tips so that you can
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Simple Speech May Slow Autistic Children
A new study, published in Cognition, suggests that because parents speak to their autistic children using fewer words and less complex sentences than do...
Mother Tongue Affects What You See
In a recent study, published in Psychological Science, Martin Maier and Rasha Abdel Rahman at the Humboldt University of Berlin examined how native language...
Bilingual Advocate to Head CA Education
Democratic Assemblyman Tony Thurmond managed to come from behind to emerge as California’s new superintendent of public instruction, beating out Marshall Tuck, a fellow...
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